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NARESH FERNANDES is contributing editor of Time Out Mumbai, a new magazine launching in the summer of 2004. He is co-editor of "Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai" - a collection of essays and more about India's greatest city. After working in NYC for The Wall Street Journal for five years, Fernandes moved back to Mumbai in 2001, where he became senior news editor for The Times of India. As an editor on the Journal’s Overseas Copy Desk, Fernandes patroled semantic boundaries, pondering the difference between “matriculation” and “micturition,” “meritorious” and “meretricious.” He had previously worked in Mumbai as a reporter for the Associated Press, as a television correspondent for Asia Pacific Communication Associates and as a feature writer and crime reporter for The Times of India. His pieces have been published in such U.S. publications as the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune and the Austin American-Statesman. In India, he has written for The Statesman, India magazine, Society and Biblio. His work at the WSJ has included stints in the Hong Kong office of the Asian Wall Street Journal and another in the Brussels office of The Wall Street Journal Europe. His reportage on religious riots appears in the book “When Bombay Burned” (UBSPD, 1993), while a piece on the deindustrialisation of Bombay is part of Penguin India’s anthology, “Elsewhere: Unusual Takes on India” (Penguin, 2000). Naresh has won several prizes for his reporting, including multiple SAJA Journalism Awards (one for his 2000 piece in Transition magazine about searching for the tomb of St. Francis Xavier in Macao, a nd another for his 1998 piece in Culturefront titled "Chutney: The Spice of Life.") Naresh has
studied at the -30- |
Columbia
Graduate School of Journalism, The Times Centre for Media Studies in New
Delhi and St. Xavier’s College in Bombay.